1 Brief summary of the book

This book tells the story of two children, brother and sister (Jem and Scout) and what they encounter in their childhood. They live in Alabama, together with their father, who is a lawyer. And every summer Dill Harris comes around. The three are inseparable and one summer, they were wondering what happened with the Radley’s place and who lived there.
They decide to try to communicate with the Radley’s, namely Boo Radley (Bogeyman) but Mr Nathan (his brother) put a stop to it and they never spoke again. When winter came there was a fire across the street from their house. All neighbours were outside, even Jem and Scout in their pyjama’s. Scout as freezing and without noticing she was given a blanket by Boo Radley, that was the first time in month they had their encounter with the Radley’s.
After this event, everything changes. Jem and Scout are growing up, Dill run away from home and Atticus had his big trial, Tom Robinsons. He was …show more content…
It really draws you in and there is nothing to do about it. The writing style, the settings and the characters fit together really well. That is why the reader can’t stop reading until it is finished.
The novel is truly extraordinary. The writing style of this author is magnificent. She clearly knew what she was doing, with the writing. She used the typical language of a southern girl/boy to let it fit in the characters and story. I really believed that the characters were directly speaking to me and that I was in the story and in Maycomb, Alabama. Although some words were a bit difficult to understand because they were typical dialectic words that aren’t taught in secondary school. But it was also very interesting to look these words up to use in a lesson in the future. The words that really stood out were streak and puny which means little or weak. I never heard of these words, so it was interesting to encounter them is this